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The second Dune instalment is jaw-on-the-floor spectacular. It elegantly weaves together top-tier special effects and arresting cinematography; it layers muscle, sinew and savagery on to the bones of Part One.

Whatever big words you apply to the result, Villeneuve undeniably did not approach Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel with modest aspirations, and it’s his ambition, along with the top tier of behind-the-scenes craftspeople with whom he collaborated, that have paid off in this superior follow-up to the Oscar-winning 2021 film... “Dune: Part Two” is a robust piece of filmmaking, a reminder that this kind of broad-scale blockbuster can be done with artistry and flair.

When was the last time a $190m blockbuster was this stately, this sinister – and this content to not explain a single aspect of itself, but instead simply allow the viewer to grab what they can and intuit the rest?

Dune: Part Two is both horrifying and romantic, presenting a far, far future that is recognizable because people never change. While the war may be portrayed as a jaw-dropping spectacle, the answers to all those political and moral questions may leave the audience deeply uncomfortable. Herbert would be proud.

Not since David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" have we seen a desert vibrate with such mesmerizing beauty and terror. There's not an ounce of hack work in it. There's also a dynamite new villain in Feyd-Rautha, played by a brilliant and scarily hairless Austin Butler, and battle scenes to die for that demand to be experienced on the biggest screen.

As was true of “Part One,” the sequel is magnificent-looking, ponderous and almost wholly lacking in thrills, joy or whimsy... Instead of a theme park, [Part Two] is more of a cathedral—solemn, sober, beautiful and forbidding. Greig Fraser’s photography and Hans Zimmer’s score are full of majesty.

Dune: Part Two isn’t [Chalamet's] movie — it belongs firmly to Zendaya, who gives the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s Frank Herbert adaptation an emotional tangibility that the first, in all its exotic majesty, eschewed.

The art of cinematic spectacle is alive and rocking in “Dune: Part Two,” and it’s a blast... Villeneuve’s approach in adapting the novel is, effectively, one of judicious distillation... Mainstream adventure films often toggle between expository and action sequences with wearyingly predictability; here, everything flows.

Epic in scope and astonishing in its world-building, Dune: Part Two combines jaw-dropping visuals with imaginative action and morally complex plotting to thrilling effect.

“Dune: Part Two” is an intelligent, conscientious science fiction movie, but also something of a bore... [The film] successfully creates a completely realized other world. But that other world is repellent and resists a viewer’s engagement.

Dune: Part Two, like its predecessor, is a work of total sensory and imaginative immersion... If that film seeded foreboding into each frame, then Part Two is entirely consumed by it.

In so many ways, Part Two takes what Villeneuve did with Part One and expands upon it, bringing that same sense of epic grandeur to the storytelling as well as its visual craft.